Best venue to watch a mosh pit without having to be in one

Subterranean
Ironic that the best place to view the stage at Subterranean is the highest point of the building’s interior, the balcony, which offers an unobstructed, rectangular cut-out view of all the evening’s festivities. As one of the few spots still willing to host all-ages punk shows, the venue is often at capacity, and the ecstasy of youth manifests itself in the battles below. Adolescents march in anger, kids front-flip from the stage, bodies pile on top of bodies like insects on a dirt mound. Bars that cater instead to jaded hipsters never seemed so old and dull.
2011 West North, (773)278-6600, subt.net